babassu nut


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Noun1.babassu nut - hard-shelled nut of the babassu palm
babassu, babassu palm, coco de macao, Orbignya martiana, Orbignya phalerata, Orbignya spesiosa - tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory
babacu oil, babassu oil - fatty oil from kernels of babassu nuts similar to coconut oil
seed - a small hard fruit
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The babassu nut oil (Orbignya martiniana) is extracted at 66.0%, but shows an unsaturated/saturated fatty acid ratio of 0.20.
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